About Me

Jim Killebrew has 40 years of clinical psychological work for people with intellectual disabilities, and experience teaching, administration, consulting, writing with multiple publications. Dr. Killebrew has attended four Universities and received advanced degrees. Southern Illinois University; Ph.D., Educational Psychology; University of Illinois at Springfield, Counseling Education; M.A., Human Development Counseling; Northeastern Oklahoma State University, B.A., Psychology and Sociology. Dr. Killebrew attended Lincoln Christian Seminary (Now Lincoln Christian University). Writing contributions have been accepted and published in several journals: Hospital & Community Psychiatry, The Lookout, and Christian Standard (multiple articles). He may be reached at Killebrewjb@aol.com.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Appreciation of America by Christians...

The Pilgrims appreciated the new world in America for the freedom they were given to be free of persecution to worship as they pleased.

The American Forefathers appreciated the Christian foundations enough to include freedom of worship in the Constitution.

The Founding Fathers appreciated the Christian influence to credit God, not the government, with the "unalienable Rights" there were "endowed by their Creator," which included, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

George Washington appreciated the Christian values and affirmed that a government could not exist without the Grace of God.

Generations of Christians have devoted themselves to the worship of God being protected with that freedom throughout their lives.

Abraham Lincoln is noted for his devotion to the Scriptures and the foundational belief in his faith. It was that faith that burned within his soul that led him to forge together a process to not just keep the country from splitting and abandoning Constitutional rule, but led him to setting free fellow human beings who were also created by God to enjoy the unalienable Rights afforded by the Constitution of a full complement of the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans who have put on the uniform and marched off to war through the two and one/half centuries of America's history appreciate America, and the freedoms, including the freedom of worship, they fought and died for.

Even today, in the Twenty-First century, there continue to be millions of Americans who appreciate America as the "The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave." There are, however, some breaks in that appreciation. There have been significant attacks on the foundational premise of America's experiment in Freedom based on Christian values and beliefs. There is renewed efforts by political standard bearers who wish to infiltrate ideologies from people who are diametrically opposed to Christian values, many of whom cross over America's borders without the proper papers, illegally, establishing their stay on the foundation of a fundamental change that even negates the Constitution. There is an ever-increasing number of people who are pushing the erroneous presumption that America is the cause of the failures of economies and societal structures in nations around the world.

Politically, there is a greater number of people who are turning their eyes toward a dependency on government, the practice of taking from the "wealthy" to redistribute to the "poor." The outreach of churches and religious organizations are increasingly withdrawing their responsibility of caring for the "widows and orphans," to relinquishing that task completely to the secular government. For sure, there are many Christian organizations and churches that have strong influence in their communities and provide much relief for those in need. But, by-and-large, the rank-and-file citizen in America has lost the foundational responsibility of "recognizing their neighbor, and filling an identified need."

Once again Americans have reached a crossroad of a decision that will require an informed choice. That choice is clear: Take the road of the past eight years that has brought us to this point, or choose an outsider whose style we know, but whose content is yet to be known. Neither of those two choices will produce the return of a Judeo-Christian recognition of governing; at least not to the complete satisfaction of the nation's Evangelicals. But the Trump organization, even if not completely known, will be a better chance to short-circuit the status quo of the past eight years. The Clinton organization will most likely continue with the current Administration's policies, even building on those policies to lead us further away from an America that most citizens have known in their lifetimes.